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Who's Winning the YouTube Town Hall? [INFOGRAPHIC]

A little while back, YouTube launched an online town hall to get the public interested and voting on the issues that matter most, and now the video site has released an infographic showing some of the results.

Every week YouTube posts user-submitted questions and U.S. representatives respond with short videos. Users then watch two videos head-to-head and vote on their favorite. Party affiliation is hidden until after the vote to get the public listening to ideas rather than thinking along party lines.

In two months of existence, YouTube's town hall received 50 videos from U.S. representatives viewed a cumulative 1.3 million times. The most viewed video is a response from Senator Jerry Moran, R.-Kan., speaking about American economic growth.

The infographic below highlights some other data points, like most viewed topics and which issues received the most votes. There is even more data on the YouTube blog. The team went through all the town hall transcripts to find out which words were most used by each party. For example, while addressing the topic of Afghanistan, Republicans talked about "progress," "withdrawal" and "success," whereas Democrats talked about "war," "mission" and "security."

Take a look at the graphic and the stats and let us know what you think. Also look out for this week's topics: Spending cuts in the budget, transparency about the productivity of legislators and the cost of the war in Afghanistan.

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